Barber&#39;s seat



E. A. GRIFFIS.

BARBERS SEAT.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 24. 1920.

Patented Dec. 7, 1920.

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EDGAR A. GRIFFIS, 0F GOZAD, NEBRASKA.

BARBERS SEAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Dec. 7, 1920.

Application filed August 24, 1920. Serial No. 405,591.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDGAR A. GnIFFIs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cozad, in the county of Dawson, State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Barbers Seats; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to chairs, and more especially to seats intended for use by the operator who works around a person seated,

as in the well known barbers chair, although of course the seat might be used by a dentist or the like.

The object of the invention is to produce a seat of this kind adapted for application to the pedestal of the usual barbers chair, and adjustable in a variety of ways.

Details are set forth below and shown in the drawings wherein:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the seat mounted upon the pedestal of a chair and supported at its outer end on the floor.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the collar.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the framework.

Fig. 4 is a detail of one of the wheel yokes.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional detail of one of the uprights, taken on about the line 5 5 of Fig. 1.

The adjustable chair for thecustomer is herein designated by the letter C, and its standard S is usually mounted within a fixed pedestal P rising from the floor F. The attachment is made up of a collar for application to the pedestal, a frame revolubly mounted on the collar, and a seat ad- 'justably and movably supported on the frame.

The collar 1 is made in two parts pivotally connected with each other at one end at the point 2 and having their other ends provided wtih a tongue engaging a fork, and a pin 3 to be dropped through alined holes in the tongue and fork-arms; and set screws 4 pass throu h this collar for attaching it to a pedestal and disposing it rigidly and concentrically around the same. When the two parts of the collar are pinned together, its exterior groove 5 is continuous. In this groove is movably mounted a ring 6 which is formed about as seen in Fig. 3, and has two tubular arms 7 with Set screws 8. A

U-shaped element 9 has its legs adjustable in the tubular arms under the set screws, and the latter may be tightened for lengthening or shortening the complete framework thus produced.

Mounted in holes 10 and 11 in each side of the element 9 are the lower ends of uprights 12 and 18, each being tubular at its upper end and having a set screw 14:, and the two uprights are connected by braces 15. flange rail 16 has downturned ends 17 passmg into the upper ends of the uprlghts and adjustable therein under the set screws. There are two rails thus supported on duplicate uprights, and they constitute a track on which move rollers 18 under a seat 19, the same being therefore adjustable radlally of the pedestal P at the will of the barber, while the height of the seat may be adjusted by the set screws 14 and the distance of the track from the pedestal may be adjusted by the set screws 8.

The seat-carrying framework as thus constructed and revolubly mounted around the chair pedestal is supported at its outer end by wheels 20 traveling on the floor; and while these wheels may be ordinary casters, I prefer to mount each on a bolt 21 passing removably through the lower end of a yoke 22 having upstanding stud bolts 23 adapted to pass through holes 24: in the arms of the element 9, and to be held by nuts 25. In

any event the wheels are preferably provided with rubber tires so that they move noiselessly over the floor as the barber pushes the outer end of the framework and moves the seat around his customer to the desired positions during a hair cut or shave. The standard S of the chair will be adjusted to the height desired when the customer takes his seat, as also the ends 17 of the rails 16 supporting the seat 19; but the radial movements of the seat and the circular movements of the framework are brought about by appropriate impulses on the part of the barber. The entire structure is such that it may be sold as an article of manufacture for application to the pedestal of barbers chairs already in use.

What is claimed is:

1. In a barbers seat, the combination with a split collar having an external groove, means for locking its ends together, and set screws for mounting it upon the pedestal of a barbers chair; of a framework including a ring at its inner en'd revolubly mounted in said groove and means for supporting its outer end, a track, supported by said framework and standing radial to said ped estal, and a seat movably mounted on said track.

2. In a barbers seat, the combination with a split collar having an external groove, means for locking its ends together, and set screws for mounting it upon the pedestal of a barbers chair; of a framework including a ring at its inner end revolubly mounted in said groove and wheels for supporting its outer end, standards rising from said framework and adjustable vertically with respect thereto, rails connecting said standards in pairs andconstituting a track radial to said pedestal,a seat, and rollers beneath the same movably mounted on said rails.

3. In a barbers seat, the combination with a framework, means for mounting its inner end revolubly upon the pedestal of a barbers chair, means for adjusting its length radial to said pedestal, and wheels for sup-- porting its outer end; of standards rising from the framework and carrying a track, and a seat having rollers movable on said track.

4. In a barbers seat, the combination with a framework, means for mounting its inner for adjusting its length, yokes under its outer end, and wheels'mounted in said yokes;

of standards rising from the outer portion of the framework and carrying. a track, and a seat movable on said track longitudinally over the framework.

5. In a structure of the class described, the combination with a framework having means at its inner end for mounting it'revolubly on a pedestal, its side arms being telescopic and adjustable and their outer members having holes, yokes having stud bolts mounted in certain of said holes, and wheels journaled in said yokes; of uprights mounted in the remaining holes and made tubular at their upper ends and provided with set screws, parallel rails having clownturned ends adjustable in said tubular ends, and a seat movably mounted on said rails.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, in the presence of witnesses.

EDGAR A. GRIFFIS;

Witnesses:

JEssE S. Goon, ETI-IEL W. Goon, DOROTHY G; WOOD. 

